RT2800 and newer hardware require padding between header and payload if
header length is not multiple of 4.
For historical reasons we also align payload to to 4 bytes boundary, but
such alignment is not needed on modern H/W.
Patch fixes skb_under_panic problems reported from time to time:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84911https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72471http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=139108549530402&w=2https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1087591
Panic happened because we eat 4 bytes of skb headroom on each
(re)transmission when sending frame without the payload and the header
length not being multiple of 4 (i.e. QoS header has 26 bytes). On such
case because paylad_aling=2 is bigger than header_align=0 we increase
header_align by 4 bytes. To prevent that we could change the check to:
if (payload_length && payload_align > header_align)
header_align += 4;
but not aligning payload at all is more effective and alignment is not
really needed by H/W (that has been tested on OpenWrt project for few
years now).
Reported-and-tested-by: Antti S. Lankila <alankila@bel.fi>
Debugged-by: Antti S. Lankila <alankila@bel.fi>
Reported-by: Henrik Asp <solenskiner@gmail.com>
Originally-From: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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